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Old 05-12-2016, 07:48 AM   #31
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Only option to organise books though is by making collections.
If you use Calibre (which many of us here do, of course) you can also use Calibre Plugboards to arrange your books into series, which personally I find more efficient than using collections.
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Oh yeah. I forgot to add that bit. However, books are automatically sorted according to the series in Kobo (it falls under Collections I think. I forgot) with the plugin mentioned. I can't check since both my Kobo devices are broken). Kobo has the advantage when it comes to organising books IMHO.
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Jim, I have a Nook Glo and it holds hundreds of books even without an SD card. It's much smaller than the HD+ (which I also have) and very, very light. The original Nook Glo has 2.0 Gigs of AVAILABLE space for your books. Obviously, if you have a lot of pdf files or highly illustrated books, that would fill up. I normally keep mostly non-illustrated novels on my Nook Glo. I have a couple of hundred books on now and it says I still have 87% of space free.

Hope this helps. I don't have the Nook Glo Plus. I understand that it is waterproof, which is a good feature if you need it.
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Old 05-12-2016, 12:46 PM   #34
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Jim, I have a Nook Glo and it holds hundreds of books even without an SD card. It's much smaller than the HD+ (which I also have) and very, very light. The original Nook Glo has 2.0 Gigs of AVAILABLE space for your books. Obviously, if you have a lot of pdf files or highly illustrated books, that would fill up. I normally keep mostly non-illustrated novels on my Nook Glo. I have a couple of hundred books on now and it says I still have 87% of space free.

Hope this helps. I don't have the Nook Glo Plus. I understand that it is waterproof, which is a good feature if you need it.
I thought that the Nook software on the older devices was segregated so that there was only a very small amount of space available for sideloaded books?

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I thought that the Nook software on the older devices was segregated so that there was only a very small amount of space available for sideloaded books?

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256MB, if memory serves me. The rest was only available for content bought from B&N.
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Hello everyone. New guy here (obviously). And I'm looking for some advice about getting an e-ink device.

I've used a Nook HD+ for a couple years and recently my phone for reading my ebooks but I'm just tired of the battery life being so bad compared to an e-ink. Don't get me wrong, I love my Nook HD+, its just that its so big, it doesn't lend itself well for when I travel, so getting something in the 6" screen size thats lighter is very appealing. So I'm trying to make that jump, but from what I've been reading, it doesn't look like its easy to decide which device will work best for me.

I have a lot of side loaded books (some almost 10MB in size, others about 0.1 MB). I was going to get the Nook Glowlight Plus, but I keep hearing that space available for side loaded content is either 500 MB or 214MB....if true, not enough for me. But I don't even know if that is true.
I like Kobo for sideloaded ebooks. I have no interest in buying ebooks from Kobo but the font options keep me coming back.

My recommendation would be the Aura H2O.
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Old 05-12-2016, 03:03 PM   #37
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The problem with people saying Kobo's are buggy is that a lot of these people are not using the latest firmware which works pretty well. So when someone says Kobo is buggy, ask what firmware and if it's not 3.19.5761,ignore them. Also, sometimes it is user error. There is a thread on MR about the English dictionary being crap. But that's wrong. One of the words the person mentioned as not being available is in the dictionary. So even if the person saying this is on the latest firmware, check to see if it could be user error.

I agree 100% with Nate. I also would highly recommend the H2O. It's not buggy. The screen is better than that of the new Kindle Oasis and with only 5 or 6 LEDs, the light does not have light cones and is very even.
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I had the latest firmware on my Kobo before it broke down. Comparing it with the Kindle's, the Kobo is a bit slower and highlighting text is not as smooth (I often had to retry highlighting before getting it right). Those are just some of my gripes with their software.
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My Kobo s run 3.19.5613 with no trouble.

One thing I didn't see anyone mention. Yes, you can use collections on the Kindle, but you can't use Calibre to create or manage those collections. You have to do it manually on the device, as I recall.
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Interestingly, I just checked the PW3, the Voyage and the Oasis to see what the size of the userstore partition was shown as, and while the PW3 and the Voyage both show 3.04 GB, the Oasis is only 2.76 GB. I wonder what takes up so much more space on the Oasis?

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Shari - that fits with my experience. I aimed to download the same books to my Oasis as to my Voyage and found the space going faster, so have had to make some (small) compromises. I suppose things like the accelerometer may require additional supporting software. It's not a huge deal, though a little disappointing.

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For Kobo, convert to kepub with Calibre. It becomes much faster. And use cbz for comics, it is lightning fast too.

ePub isn't the fastest format Kobo has, and its biggest upside to kepub is ligatures. Kepub doesn't show them.
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Shari - that fits with my experience. I aimed to download the same books to my Oasis as to my Voyage and found the space going faster, so have had to make some (small) compromises. I suppose things like the accelerometer may require additional supporting software. It's not a huge deal, though a little disappointing.

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The TTS voices are what use the additional storage. You can delete them if you don't need them (folder "voice") but it would be a good idea to make a backup copy first.
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The TTS voices are what use the additional storage. You can delete them if you don't need them (folder "voice") but it would be a good idea to make a backup copy first.
Actually, Harry, the 2.76 was not the free space available, it was the total capacity of the user store. The Voyage and the PW3 both 3.04 GB showing as the total capacity of the user store. So...while you will gain space by deleting the Voice folder, you will not get the same amount available on the Voyage and PW.

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Thanks, Harry, I'll probably do that as I'm confident I won't need them (but will save a copy elsewhere as you suggest).

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Thanks, Shari, I'll try it and see what it gives me

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